New Japan began the Road To SAKURA GENESIS Tour today, a quick week-long sprint to the early April blowout event.
Today’s event was held at Takaoka Techno Dome in Toyama. There is/was no live or on demand broadcast.
The announced paid attendance was 868.
Match 1: Katsuya Murashima, Ninja Mack, Yotu Yano & Hiroyoshi Tenzan beat Daiki Nagai, Tiger Mask, Tomoaki Honma & Togi Makabe. Mack pinned Nagai after Shuriken Kick.
Match 2: Boltin Oleg & Hiroshi Tanahashi beat TAKA Michinoku & Yuya Uemura. Oleg pinned TAKA after Kamikaze.
Match 3: Yujiro Takahashi & Ren Narita beat Drilla Moloney & Gabriel Kidd by DQ. Moloney DQ’d.
Match 4: SANADA, Robbie X & Taiji Ishimori beat Hartley Jackson (Independent/Freelancer), Kosei Fujita & Robbie Eagles. SANADA pinned Jackson after Deadfall.
Match 5: BUSHI, Hiromu Takahashi & Tetsuya Naito beat Jacob Austin Young, Francesco Akira & Callum Newman. Takahashi pinned Young after Maximum The Holding 3rd Form.
Match 6: Shingo Takagi & Yota Tsuji beat Dick Togo & EVIL. Takagi pinned Togo after HOLD YOUR LAST CHANCE.
Main Event: El Desperado, YOSHI-HASHI & Hirooki Goto beat Clark Connors, Gedo & David Finlay. Goto pinned Gedo after Unfit.
The next event is tomorrow at Act City Hamamatsu in Shizuoka. There will be no live or on demand broadcast.
Additionally, according to New Japan World’s website, it has been decided the Windy City Riot event in Chicago, IL on 4/11 will be a PPV. It is available for pre-order for $19.99. At this time it is not listed on the TrillerTV/FITE schedule.
